[Fedora TeX Live] texlive dvisvgm bug

[Jindrich Novy]

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:13:06PM -0500, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> Hi-
> 
> This isn't really your bug, but it could be worked around or patched
> fairly easily.  dvisvgm (from
> texlive-dvisvgm-bin-2010-2.20100720.svn19405.fc14.x86_64) can't find
> libgs.so without help.  This is easy to verify with dvisvgm -l.
> 
> There are two ways to help it.  One is like this:
> 
> $ dvisvgm --libgs=/usr/lib64/libgs.so.8 -l
> 
> and the other is to install ghostscript-devel.  Could you either add
> ghostscript-devel as a dependency (seems silly) or just add a patch to
> fix the default?
> 
> (Of course, the tikz figures I'm testing on cause dvisvgm to
> malfunction amazingly, but that's a different story.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy

It is now fixed for both TL2010 and TL2011/dev. I just added the
ghostscript-devel dependency fo dvisvgm which seemed the easiest
solution to this.

Jindrich

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